Scripture
And pray for us, too, that God may open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains. Colossians 4:3

Observation
What we ask prayer for tells everything about us. Prayer requests are a knothole into the soul to give a little glimpse of what is going on inside. For some its all about money, for others about vindication, for still more it is about children. When we peer through the close boarded fence around the heart of Paul we see the plain, clean cut, green grass of one simple desire: to spread the message.

It wasn’t not about Paul, it was about the message. God became a person through Jesus Christ and is making new people out of all of us. Paul met more than just Jesus, he was blinded by the glorified Christ. The vision had transformed him and he wanted everyone to see that glory. It didn’t matter to him if he was rotting in prison, drenched in the hold of a ship, crowd surfing through a riot or sitting in a livingroom, Paul wanted the message to come out.

It wasn’t about Paul, it was about the people around him. He constantly uses the words “us” and “we”. This isn’t a royal “we”. This is the language of a team builder. It was always Paul and Company. Co-workers followed him and stuck with him. He must have had a warm and winsome personality.

Application
Open doors are what we all want; it is what i seek. There is so much inside of us that God has put in there, but what use is it without a door a jar. This isn’t about me. It’s about Christ. It’s about us. But it all hinges on a door open wide.

Prayer
Father, open a door. Amen.